So this time it is going to be more music-oriented… However since it is pretty linked to grooving, it will (or at least should) be of great help! I hope everything is clear! Anyway, I will post another article later to dig this concept! Stay tuned! 😉 I am going to leave you with another bass line which is basically made around that same pattern (short note then long one). Notice how it switches from soft and nice parts to stronger ones. We could talk about that for hours finding examples everywhere but I am going to let you listen one last time to Space Cowboy but this time to Jay Kay’s singing. Now I am sure you understood how large this topic is. Now, start the video again and pay attention to all these variations… you will notice the bass line keeps switching from soft to strong every microsecond!
It may sound a bit maniacal to pay attention to all these little things but that will make your bass lines much more groovier and subtler, believe me! But let us go back to this slide thing… what made it special and well phrased? Do you remember my previous articles on playing with paradoxes? Now please take a look back at that slide pattern… do you get it? It is played very softly (the root then a gentle slide) followed by a more punchy note (the Eb) played much stronger.
Pay attention to the slide, it goes stronger and stronger until he hits the Eb, which is played very short and powerful. For example at 0:18 off the following video he plays this: Let us start with this slide pattern I was talking about… If you listen to Jamiroquai’s Space Cowboy (I know I love that band… I swear next time I will choose another one! ^^) you will notice Stuart Zender, the bass player, plays very softly with loooads of subtleties here and there. Since it deals with almost all your playing I am going to take some examples! Does it mean your slide has to be powerful or subtle? Or maybe progressively strong? All these little variations are not written and it is up to you to play them… or not! And guess what? There is no way (yet?) to transcribe this so it is completely up to you to feel and play them! Obviously almost everything you play apart from notes (and sometimes rhythm) is not written so stuffs like intensity (the way you hit your strings) or intonation (how you make your notes live – very short or very long with a fade out for example) are for you to feel. Say the tab shows you a slide from a G to a A. So what does this mysterious title mean? I guess the first time someone hears the word phrasing it is not clear right away… this article is meant to explain this concept and show you how it can help you grooving! 😉īasically, just pay attention at everything you cannot tab.
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